Playing With Tag/Word Clouds

In between doing the dishes, commenting on blog posts and creating a possible tutorial I'm having a little fun with word/tag cloud applications. I'm not sure if I'm going to enter the Carly Simon Your So Vain Video contest.I would love to encourage other women to do so, especially if you remember hearing it on the radio. If you don't then do it for mom or your auntie. A bonding opportunity that does not involve bail.I'm telling you, based on the...

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This To Shall Pass on the Finally Friday Freakout

I can count the number of times I have recommended a marching band rendition of a song. This would be a first. But any music video that has a token homage to Swamp Thing is jake with me. And yeah, give the fellas .99 cents cuz this does have medicinal qualities.I just got finished reading Taddy's post about someone who was mistaken in their belief they had no value. Then he linked to a damn fine post by Jennifer Michale Hecht about two other folks taking the deep six plunge and she is imploring people not to leave ahead of their time.I want to...

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Crisis in Haiti: Panel Discussion Video

A couple of days ago I wrote a short post on BlogHer about my thoughts about Sustainable Architecture and how folks are planning to help with long term building projects in Haiti.Many folks are thinking about Haiti not just for the short term but the impact of such a disaster for the world community.This is a video from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs. This is a almost an hour and 30 minute panel presentation that speaks to the multiple issues that Haiti will face.According to the YouTube Channel page:The UChannel...

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The Gift of Self-Pleasure - Audio Dramas and Recordings

There is more to life that boom-chicka-boom. What if you don't need to see it but you want something warm and tactile as you drift off to sleep. I may have found a few possibilities that could bring you and your mp3 player closer in the still of the night.There is audio content for women but it took a while to track it down. Let me suggest to you that if you have a mp3 or media player, a bed and some toys you could find yourself drifting into contentment. This is truly can be interactive theater of the mind.Here is what I found on the journey...

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The Gift of Self-Pleasure - IFM's Video Site

Part of searching for erotica as opposed to, you know that other stuff, is that you have to be very careful not to pick up spyware, pop-ups and garishly designed web sites. This is where the viral and social media aspects kick into play.My hat tip for today is JanesGuide, which has been evaluating adult web sites since 1997.We need a site like JanesGuide because there is no way most women can type into a search engine and not get bombarded with really noxious listings. Many of the sites for a variety of reasons are behind authentication walls or...

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The Gift of Self-Pleasure - Thinking Outside of The Polarities

I know that I prefer and desire males as sexual partners and life companions. I don't think it was socialization; I'm real sure it was because I was checking out certain fellas in school kinda confirmed to me where my path was destined. It wasn't a choice. It is a part of who I am. I can't be programmed out of my preferences that gets my heart beating a little faster. I believe the same could be said for gay, lesbian, transgendered and bi-sexual person. There is no need to bring shame, guilt or other people's deeply embedded fears into our body,...

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The Gift of Self-Pleasure for The Imaginary Box

There is a reality of not having a partner, specifically a sexual partner on Valentine's Day. Now some of you are going to tell me the day is about love and all forms of non-erotic love.Agape, divine, innocent, and all of that kind of stuff. Yeah, ok. I know. That is not what I am writing about today. Nope. It is about the engagement of sex and sexual energy that needs an outlet that does not involve cleaning, shopping or chocolate.Ok, maybe chocolate. I don't want to be an extremist.Ladies, we can be re-active or pro-active. I vote pro-active....

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What I Learn About Love From A Touch of Mink

You have to question cultural socialization. Ok, I have to question it. It is like this, I used to stay up and watch movies. I could exist on three hours of sleep every other night and it would not phase me a bit.Damn I miss those days!A Cary Grant movie was like required viewing. It was a reading of how men acted, talked and could be toward women. I did not care if he was scruff or in a tux and tails. He was and shall ever be all right with me.I...

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My Baby Just Cares for Me on the Finally Friday Freakout

I needed Friday to happen around Monday morning. Egad, it was a long day at the Salt Mine. To tell the truth, I have been looking for my Valentine's present.Yes, I am gifting myself. The only thing is I can't buy a camera or camcorder. I have to go beyond the usual desires. It is one of those conceptual gifts that once I get it I can pass it around. I know it exist but finding it has been a challenged. Might have to improvise.So this is a bit of fun from the great folks at Aardman Animation. The vocal is Nina Simone's My Baby Just Cares for...

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Incomming - Response to the Dodge Super Bowl Ad

First came the Levi's Dockers Male Reclamation advertisement. Now Dodge want to shore up masculine identity.You've sacrificed a lot, but surely there is a limit to your chivalry. Drive the car you want to drive.These are the good old days because there is now the ability to respond. Check it out:They say pick your battles and not fight every war. I say pay attention to the words that lead to war. Then look to the war profiteers.Make love, not war. Reduce unnecessary consumption. Don't believe the hy...

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The Gift of Curiosity For The Imaginary Box

Curiosity is my birthright. I am curious, color spectrum; not just yellow. In my teens and twenties I was trying to understand the mechanics. In the thirties it was about energy containment. Later it became an understanding of the creative spiritual nature of sex and communion.Here I am standing a degree or two away from where I started. I have loved. I have lusted. I have been bone hungry. I have been on sabbatical from the noise of contention.One thing I do know is that I need to explore. I need to listen (still working on that one) and remind...

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Love In the Spirit of The Sun Magazine

With that dang book about compromising on a marriage partner still bouncing around and other folks are fighting to get into and out of marriages it makes me almost proud that i am single woman.Yes. I'm holding out for the relationship thing. I was re-evaluating my thoughts on free range thumpety thump. If it was just the sex we'd all be perhaps not quite so tense.The Sun Magazine has heart pounding writing. Each and every month there is gold coming...

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The Gift of Permission For the Imaginary Box

This is one of those moments that smacks you upside the head. I have had a mental loop of a scene in a movie that comes back to me from time to time. The movie is The Devil in Miss Jones. The link is to the specific scene in the movie and nothing more.For those on work lock down it or otherwise video prohibited it is the scene where Miss Jones is about to be enroll in the School of Carnal Knowledge. Miss Jones meets "The Teacher."The Teacher removes...

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Prelude to Gifts I Should Remember to Give Myself

I have decided that I'm going to do February 14th differently this year. I was staring to get irritated with the VD ads for underwear, chocolate and the implicit messages, instructions and tutorials on how to please your man. I don't have one, a man I mean. It is not like I can stroll into JCPenney's and flip the racks in the men folk's department until I find the guy that fits.Now if JCP decided to get innovative and have a registry where you could obtain a vetted and verifiable man of your desires I do think it would brighten the profit outlook...

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All Night Long on the Finally Friday Freakout

Keely Smith? I had never heard of the woman until I stumbled into a video. Keely was performing during the transition time between the poodle skirt and the mini skirt. Think of the Mad Man years. In between was Keely. This is Keely singing All Night Long.For a time she hung out with a cat named Louis Prima who was a force a nature by himself. This was classic fire and ice and sometimes you had to work out which was which. Usually Keely was the ice as Louis was burning up the joint. This is their rendition of Don't Worry About Me. Mr. Prima passed...

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